Tag Archives: User Experience

You’ve seen the headlines: Facebook is making us lonely (The Atlantic); How Facebook makes us unhappy (The New Yorker); The social and emotional costs of technology use, and on and on. Apparently, our increasing use of technology is making us depressed, lonely, and unable to read social cues; it’s making us dumber, destroying our memory […]

Happiness seems made to be shared. Pierre Corneille At a high level, happiness is defined as overall life satisfaction. What makes people the happiest is hard to quantify. Some items I assume would be ingredients to happiness (a high income, warm, sunny weather, access to great food) don’t even make a blip on the happiness […]

It’s true, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and we have an interesting biological trick to thank for that. First impressions and judgments are made at an impressively awesome speed. Within the one-tenth of a second, we are able to decide if someone is trustworthy, competent or attractive. Jonathan Freeman, assistant professor […]

This week’s guest post comes from Sarah Doody, a designer and product strategist I’ve long admired. For years, Sarah has shared her expertise on design, productivity and communication in such places as UX Magazine and her blog and weekly newsletter, the latter of which are two of my favorite resources for UX and product inspiration (I never know what […]

You’ve checked your links, tested on different browsers, and settled on the perfect tagline to get your product’s message across… …But something else to keep in mind when preparing your website for launch is how every element of your site will affect its users’ happiness. According to on an intensive study by user researcher, Pamela […]

Here, we are firm believers in how design can be used to create positive experiences, help people flourish and ultimately change the world in some way. We were fortunate to be able to talk to designer and co-founder of GreatPositive, Matthew Martindale about how design can help non-profits increase their impact. Talk a bit about […]